Jeff Price is a principal with Manier & Herod, practicing in the areas of fidelity law, surety law, directors and officers’ liability insurance, and commercial litigation. He represents fidelity insurers and directors and officers’ liability insurers on coverage issues, coverage litigation, and other matters arising from fidelity insurance policies, financial institution bonds, directors and officers’ liability policies, and other professional liability policies. 

Mr. Price also represents sureties in distressed contractor transactions and workouts, intercreditor transactions, surety credit facilities, bankruptcies, performance bond defaults, payment bond claims, and every aspect of surety law. Additionally, he represents insurers under builders risk insurance policies and commercial general liability policies on coverage issues, coverage litigation, defense of insureds, and other matters. 

Mr. Price received his B.A. (1995), magna cum laude, from Gardner Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Mr. Price received his J.D. (1998), summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was a member of the Tennessee Law Review.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Fidelity Law Program Chair, American Bar Association (Fidelity and Surety Law Committee) 2008 Mid-Winter Meeting, New York, NY;

Program Chair, Southern Surety & Fidelity Claims Conference, 2008, Charleston, SC;

Take it or Leave It?  The Surety’s Right of Recission, author and presenter, 2005 International Association of Defense Counsel Conference, New York;

Specific Types of Claims (Accounts Receivable Financing, Loan Participation and Syndication, Subprime Lending, Floor Plan Financing, Mortgage Warehouse Lending) and Riders (Fraudulent Mortgage Rider and Servicing Contractor Rider), author and presenter, 2007 American Bar Association Fidelity Law Program, Orlando, FL;

The Public Officials Bond—A Statutory Obligation Requiring Faithful Performance, Fidelity, and Flexibility, co-author and speaker, Fidelity Law Association, October, 2006 (published at XII Fid. L.J. 151 (2006)), Washington, D.C.;

Financial Benefit Requirements (Including Discussion of Employee Salary, Commissions and Fees Exclusion), co-author, presented to the American Bar Association (Fidelity and Surety Law Committee) 2002 Mid-Winter Meeting, New York;

Payment Bond Manual (3rd ed.), contributor;

The Law of Motor Vehicle Dealer Bonds, contributor;

Loan Loss Coverage Under Financial Institution Bonds (2007), contributor;

Annotated Financial Institution Bond (2nd Ed.), contributor;

Seven Myths about Equitable Subrogation, contributing author, presented to 2000 Southern Surety & Fidelity Claims Conference;

Author and Speaker, Southern Surety & Fidelity Claims Conferences (2004-2007), Tampa, Fl; New Orleans, La; Charleston, SC;

Speaker, National Bond Claims Association 2006 Annual Meeting, Pinehurst, NC;

Speaker, American Bar Association (Fidelity and Surety Law Committee) 2004 Mid-Winter Meeting, San Francisco, CA; and

Surety Claims Institute Newsletter, contributor.



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